Arguing that the word was outmoded and demeaning, council members pushed the debate into the national spotlight.
(History, a scornful dismissal of the out-of-date, as in "he's history," denoted what was once called passé, a term now so outmoded as to be antediluvian, a word washed ashore after Noah's flood. The language of fashion cries out for an up-to-date word for "out-of-date").
The printed word on paper is outmoded technology.
It is also challenging a cosseted, tradition-bound culture -- that still blushes at the word condom -- to shake off outmoded assumptions about sex, drugs and AIDS.
A civilised society should question laws that entrench outmoded gender stereotypes, and promote imagined ideas about dirty words in dirty places.
In other words, the personal stamp -- our identities, in some historically distant, outmoded way -- have become unidentifiable and unrecognizable, purposefully so.
The monks had to go back to making rank outmoded spirits and lethally strong beer, thems the breaks, the mass production of words had arrived.
The word "feminism" has encountered a lot of chatter recently about whether it's "outmoded" or needs to be "upgraded" -- or, indeed, phased out.
"Partners" is built to resemble a "sort of museum within a museum," in the words of the show's artistic director, Massimiliano Gioni, and has the air of an outmoded academic archive newly appeared on the Bowery.
The fifteenth, fourteenth, thirteenth, and twelfth centuries each have their own lists, as does the catchall "before 12th century," notable for its outmoded Anglo-Saxon administrative vocabulary—"wapentake," "witenagemot"—and for a charming, antiquated term for vocabulary itself: "word-hoard".
